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Today's
post
is
by
Ewan
Auguste,
Market
Development
Leader
for
IBM
WebSphere
Marketing;
Mary
Forlenza,
IBM
Marketing
Communications;
and
Botond
Kiss,
Program
Director
of
IBM
Application
Infrastructure
Marketing
The
Bryan
brothers
just
missed
winning
a
rare
Grand
Slam
when
they
lost
the
doubles
tennis
competition
at
the
US
Open.
The
last
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Last
October,
I
had
the
pleasure
to
lead
an
outstanding
team
of
WebSphere
MQ
experts
that
met
in
the
IBM
International
Technical
Support
Organization
(ITSO)
center
in
Raleigh,
NC
to
write
an
IBM
Redbooks
publication
in
four
weeks.
It
sounded
like
a
daunting,
impossible
task.
However,
as
part
of
the
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The
problem
with
the
phrase
‘business
agility,’
if
you
ask
me,
is
that
it
has
now
officially
been
used
too
many
times,
in
too
many
different
ways,
to
mean
anything
very
definite.
I
therefore
propose
getting
rid
of
this
particular
adjective/noun
combo
and
replacing
it
with
a
verb:
respond.
Four
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Good
strategies
require
good
information;
I
think
we
can
all
agree
on
that.
If
you
want
to
fly
to
Austin,
for
instance,
it's
important
that
you
establish
whether
you
mean
the
Austin
in
Texas
or
the
Austin
in
Minnesota
before
you
buy
your
plane
ticket.
Failure
to
do
so
will
... [ + Read more ]

Cloud
computing
has
become,
in
certain
ways,
the
eat-right-and-get-some-exercise
of
IT
infrastructures.
By
this
I
mean
that
everybody's
heard
the
message,
and
everybody
knows
the
potential
benefits...
but
not
everybody
actually
follows
through
to
the
degree
they
could,
or
should,
to
get
the
best
possible
results.
Even
in
2012,
the
... [ + Read more ]

By
Lyn
ElkinsSr.
IT
SpecialistIBM
Advanced
Technical
Skills
(ATS)
While
working
on
the
IBM
WebSphere
MQ
V7.1
and
V7.5
Features
and
Enhancements
IBM
Redbooks
publication,
I
had
that
wonderful
and
rare
opportunity
to
exercise
the
shared
message
data
set
(SMDS)
capability
more
fully.
It
also
led
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Happy
RSA
everyone.
To
check
out
an
overview
of
what
IBM
has
going
on
at
the
show,
click
here.
In
other
news,
if
you
have
ever
turned
on
a
television
during
a
sporting
event
in
the
US,
you
have
likely
seen
IBM
talking
about
data
and
analytics,
and
the
... [ + Read more ]

By
Jamie
Squibb
WebSphere
MQ
Software
Engineer
IBM
Hursley
Laboratory
As
a
member
of
the
WebSphere
MQ
development
organization
I
hear
about
requests
to
enhance
the
product
to
satisfy
new
requirements.
These
requests
vary
from
the
addition
of
a
new
property,
or
attribute,
to
much
larger
functional
enhancements.
WebSphere
MQ
is
usually
part
... [ + Read more ]

Three
steps
to
trusted
data
and
increased
business
value
Have
you
ever
been
in
a
company
meeting
where
multiple
people
had
their
own
report
on
a
specific
topic
that
led
them
each
to
a
completely different
decision?
I
think
that
has
happened,
and
still
happens,
a
lot.
But
(there
always
... [ + Read more ]

Is
your
organization
struggling
to
manage
the
massive
volumes
of
data
and
transactions
being
produced
at
an
unprecedented
pace
through
converging
technologies,
social
business,
and
the
proliferation
of
mobile
and
interconnected
devices?
Studies
show
that
CEOs,
business
and
IT
leaders
understand
the
growing
importance
of
technology
to
address
these
challenges,
... [ + Read more ]

Guest
post
by
Claus
T.
Jensen,
IBM
STSM
and
SOA
Foundation
Chief
Architect.
These
days
people
invariably
mention
mobile,
social,
cloud
or
big
data
as
“the
next
cool
thing.”
But
when
talking
about
“the
next
cool
thing,”
we
should
really
ask
ourselves,
why
is
that
important?
New
business
initiatives
do
not